This is not a happy read, where grief becomes vengeance in the name of justice.
 
Troy has fallen, Hecuba has lost everything, where her grief is added to when she discovers a trusted friend had murdered her young defenceless son. In revenge she blinds this friend and kills his two sons, then she eloquently argues her action, this is what’s surprising, why this play is worth reading, even in the depths of her grief reasoning and rational do not fail her.